Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Composition, Elocution, Evidences of Christianity, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Logic.  Verily, an encyclopaedic man of vast industry!  Only four years after Dr. Humphreys’ death the War of the Rebellion broke out, and St. John’s, unlike the temple of Janus, closed its doors at the rumors of war.  The buildings were used as an hospital, and not until 1866 was the college again reopened with the well-known educator, Henry Barnard, at its head.  In less than a year he resigned to become the first United States Commissioner of Education, and neither he nor his successor, Dr. James C. Welling, who was principal until 1870, was able to graduate a class.  Since the beginning of the administration of the next principal, James M. Garnett, LL.  D., the succession of classes has been unbroken and the college has steadily advanced in reputation and usefulness.  Dr. Garnett made the English department especially excellent and, after ten years faithful service, resigned in 1880.  The Rev. J.D.  Leavitt, his successor, made a departure from the old classic curriculum and organized a department of Mechanical Engineering.  After he resigned Prof.  W.H.  Hopkins acted as principal for a time and introduced military discipline, having secured the detail of an officer from the United States Army as instructor in Military Tactics.

St. John’s celebrated its centennial in 1889, and has begun its second century with excellent prospects.  The four years’ administration of its present principal, Thomas Fell, LL.  D., has been a most successful one, and St. John’s is fulfilling the purpose of its founders “to train up and perpetuate a succession of able and honest men, for discharging the various offices and duties of life, both civil and religious, with usefulness and reputation.”

THE SECOND UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.

Most universities have developed from a college; the University of Maryland differs from them, for it originated in a medical school.[11]

In 1802 Dr. John B. Davidge of Baltimore began a private class in Medicine and was so successful in it, that, in 1807, he associated with himself Drs. James Cocke and John Shaw and these three obtained from the Legislature a charter for the school, under the name of “the College of Medicine of Maryland."[12] There was made a close connection between the College of Medicine and the State “Medical and Chirurgical Faculty,” and its board of medical examiners were made ex-officio members of the Board of Trustees of the College.  The Legislature also granted the college a lottery of $40,000.[13]